WANGARATTA OPENS WARM & A LITTLE WACKY
Ausjazz blog catches the flavour of Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival on Friday, October 28, 2011 It was balmy, warm and threatening rain when festival artistic director Adrian Jackson welcomed patrons to the first gig of this festival, the Linda Oh Quartet. This group, with Sam Sadisgursky on tenor sax, Fabian Almazan on piano and Rhodes and Kendrick Scott on drums, played with zest, energy … Continue reading WANGARATTA OPENS WARM & A LITTLE WACKY
WHO’S ON THE WAX WHEN YOU DROP THE NEEDLE
INTERVIEW Ausjazz blog talks with Josh Roseman When trombonist Josh Roseman talks music, it’s not long before the word “sonic” crops up. Born in Boston to a Jamaican mother and Jewish father, Roseman says he was “born to synthesize” because he came from such disparate backgrounds, so that “it became part of my intellectual and aesthetic make-up to intuit different cultural streams”. He embraced his … Continue reading WHO’S ON THE WAX WHEN YOU DROP THE NEEDLE
SPACED OUT BASSIST BOWS TO AN INVITATION: COME PLAY SOLO
AN INTERVIEW WITH BARRE PHILLIPS To talk with Barre Phillips is to tap a deep mine with rich veins of jazz history. “You probably like a story,” the exponent of solo bass begins with delight as he relates the tale of his brother Peter’s first “big hit” as a composer, The Survivors, which premiered at the first Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958. Written for symphony … Continue reading SPACED OUT BASSIST BOWS TO AN INVITATION: COME PLAY SOLO